E.T. Anthony: I followed the link and it gave me your Nanowrimo end card, no new chapter to be seen. Will check again later to see if it just needs to update.

E.T. Anthony: No idea why it happened (it kept happening), but I closed out and opened it in the Wattpad app directly and that did the trick.

Gonna assume it was something to do with my phone.

Brooke Johnson: in case anyone is wondering, i'm planning to finish DARK LORD IN TRAINING over the next month or so and finally be able to mark it as "complete" on once that's done, i'm going to continue writing THE MERMAID & THE BEAST.

i've been planning out my next year (and a half) of writing projects and updated my long-term publishing goals today D:

picture on left: immediate goalspicture on right: all the books i have conceived and wish to finish

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J.B. Wise: I AM SO EXCITED TO SEE THE WIZARD'S HEART ON HERE! <3

Brooke Johnson: i really REALLY want to get that story to a point that i'm happy with it. i've had soooo many false starts on it. i'm hoping that after i get all this other stuff done, i'll be able to focus on that and do it properly this time.

i have a bit of a dilemma i'm hoping some of my indie pros can help me with.

so, long story short, my publisher passed on the remaining books in my steampunk series, so i'm looking to self-publish them.

my problem is: which printer/distributor do i use? Createspace or Ingram?

Pros for Createspace: less expensive ($99 per ISBN, or free, if i use CS as my publisher of record), higher profit margin on AmazonCons for Createspace: can't match existing trim size

Pros for Ingram: can match existing trim size, establish pre-ordersCons for Ingram: more expensive ($125 for 1 ISBN, or $295 for 10 ISBNs, plus listing fees), lower profits per book

no matter which one i use, the print versions of my next books will be more expensive than the existing mass market paperbacks. my dilemma is, do i eat the cost of Ingram's fees and lower profits to have a better quality book, matching trim sizes, and make pre-orders available? or do i save a bit of money and be eternally annoyed that the series switches trim sizes in the middle of it?

Steve Turnbull: Sorry to hear that. I left CS and moved to IS a while back but my reasons had more to do with being in the UK and not wanting to wait weeks for delivery, and pay stupid shipping costs for the privilege.

Would it not be more cost effective to buy your own ISBNs? After all if you use theirs, they will be tagged as the publisher. (Not sure about IS, but definitely for CS.)

Also if you use CS they will be very limited on the outlets they reach, whereas IS will be available through every bookstore. Not that anyone will stock you either way, but people can order.

Lisa “LJ” Cohen: I would buy my own block of isbns and have books at both CS and IS. The reason is this: you want the ease of create space to Amazon plus the ability to have books available to order in bookstores and libraries.

I recommend using the same trim size for,both even if they don't match your current books. At some point you will get your rights back and can republish to match.

Brooke Johnson: +Steve Turnbull, +Nathan Lowell+Dan Thompson what are your opinions on trim size? i can match my existing trim size with Ingram, but not with CS. the paperbacks printed through CS would be about a full inch taller and wider than the mmps. paperbacks printed through Ingram would be about 2mm taller. does it matter that much? am i just fixating on something that doesn't matter in the long run?

or should i do the two different editions through both distributors so that i can have both trim sizes available? and get the benefits of both?

i reckon most of my paperback sales are going to be local, at library and bookstore signings, and some to the few distant readers who already have the series in print.

i'm going into this realizing that it's not going to make me much money. it's for the sake of making the rest of the series available to readers. i'd rather do that than not publish them at all.

Andy Brokaw: I get what you're saying. I've only ever done NaNo when I wasn't in a place where I felt I was living up to my potential. I'm one of those people who will never finish if I edit as I go, though. And "winning" isn't always winning. There have have been years when I wound up with 50k words of unusable crap that wouldn't be decent no matter how much I edited it.